Grant’s Grunts: Lucene Edition

My dzone interview on Apache Solr 1.4 is up:  Inside the New Apache Solr | Javalobby.

Flexible Collaborative Filtering In JAVA With Mahout Taste « Java. Internet. Algorithms. Ideas.. Nice writeup on one person’s experience getting started using Mahout Taste for building a recommendation system.

Webcast: From Here to There, You Can Find it Anywhere: Building Local/Geo-Search with Apache Lucene and Solr sponsored by Lucid Imagination. I’ll be doing a webinar on spatial search with Sameer Maggon of ATT Interactive and Ryan McKinley of Voyager GIS this coming Wednesday.  We’ll talk about how Lucene and Solr can help solve local [...]

I just sent out the following announcement to the mailing lists: Apache Solr 1.4 has been released and is now available for public download! http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/solr/ Solr is the popular, blazing fast open source enterprise search platform from the Apache Lucene project. Its major features include powerful full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, dynamic clustering, database [...]

While I had a great time at ApacheCon interacting with others, etc., as an amateur photographer, my favorite part of the show was the interacting with Julian Cash while he worked his magic doing light paintings: Grant Ingersoll at ApacheCon 2009 by Julian Cash by juliangeek on creative.ly.